Hi everyone I have been looking for a gba flash cart that runs all games perfectly and has a bulit in RTC and I have heard that the M3 perfect gba cart is the best but im not sure what the cart looks like? and if it is the best gba flash cart to have?

Overall I want to play games the homebrew pokemon games that use RTC so I can play on actual gba hardware
and to use features like linking gba to gamecube. or would it be easier to get a ezflash 4 cart?

I have an M3 perfect SD it was my first flashcart. I got it for $150 with a phat DS when my mom was "scammed" into thinking every game on it listed was a real card. Any fool could send a six-buck R4 or something like that, but this idiot gave me a (now) worth $90 flashcard! Came with a real mario 64 DS too.

so lemme give you the facts.

It runs all GBA games perfectly, but you have to press START (load) to load them, NOT A (fast load, never worked for me). Also, you need to use PC software to patch each game for the card. It's called M3 game manager.

You have a lot of options for it, too. You can save state and load state with it, and it's firmware includes built-in emulators, so you can just load retro ROMs on your card by opening them like any other file (NES, SMS, GG, GB, GBC, and PCE IIRC) like you would a normal game and it opens it up in an emulator.

It has extra RAM for DS-mode also, so it can run stuff like quake 2 DS and run neo-DS faster.

To use it in DS mode, you need to run flashme (with a passme or another card, I think) and you have to patch all games just like the GBA ones.

It's really quite a nice card

I don't use mine super-often (also have DSTWO), and I'll probably use it even less when I get a PSP, but I'm still keeping it for now

It runs all GBA games perfectly, but you have to press START (load) to load them, NOT A (fast load, never worked for me). Also, you need to use PC software to patch each game for the card. It's called M3 game manager.

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I have two carts and yes, they're great. I always press A to start them and never had any issues. I'm using a GBA SP with the cart. Does the problem only happen with an NDS?

It runs all GBA games perfectly, but you have to press START (load) to load them, NOT A (fast load, never worked for me). Also, you need to use PC software to patch each game for the card. It's called M3 game manager.

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I have two carts and yes, they're great. I always press A to start them and never had any issues. I'm using a GBA SP with the cart. Does the problem only happen with an NDS?

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No, I've used it in my GBA original as well and it does the same thing. Perhaps you have later iterations of the m3 perfect, like the M3 perfect lite, perhaps? Mine is M3 perfect SD/MicroSD fat (sticks out of the DS almost as much as a game boy/color cartridge would.

Waaay more. The stores that actually had them in stock two years ago sold them for $90 THEN...who knows how much they fetch nowadays.

I got mine from Ebay, but I just got lucky.

Some people here on the temp look for these often. Schlupi just claimed some, but I think those were perfect lites, which are worth FAR less since they don't have extra RAM like perfect SD and CF fat do. Stick around here and reach 100 quality posts in the forum and you can sell it in temp's buy/sell/trade area.

Waaay more. The stores that actually had them in stock two years ago sold them for $90 THEN...who knows how much they fetch nowadays.

I got mine from Ebay, but I just got lucky.

Some people here on the temp look for these often. Schlupi just claimed some, but I think those were perfect lites, which are worth FAR less since they don't have extra RAM like perfect SD and CF fat do. Stick around here and reach 100 quality posts in the forum and you can sell it in temp's buy/sell/trade area.

EDIT: Also, they ARE the ones that support larger GBA roms. At least that's what the seller told me. I'll see when they arrive Saturday.

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They support everything up to 32 MB (32,768KB for packed homebrew/emulators IIRC) There is no commercial ROM over 32 MB, so the only things that can go over 32,768kb is overstuffed emulators like pocketnes and goomba/goomba color. They will still load, but the size will make it not load most of the packed ROMs. At least for my card, quick load is broken for large ROMs (A) but everything works if you normal load them with START.

Also, upon closer inspection, I actually Have a M3 Perfect SD, NOT an M3 perfect MiniSD (the card is fatter and the card slot isn't on the side of the card.) So maybe it's worth more and maybe its worth less. Until I can confirm it would be worth the hassle to sell it and send it out somewhere, it's stayin with me

EDIT: Also, they ARE the ones that support larger GBA roms. At least that's what the seller told me. I'll see when they arrive Saturday.

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They support everything up to 32 MB (37,268KB to be exact) There is no commercial ROM over 32 MB, so the only things that can go over is overstuffed emulators like pocketnes and goomba/goomba color. They will still load, but the size will make it not load most of the packed ROMs. At least for my card, quick load is broken for large ROMs (A) but everything works if you normal load them with START.

Also, upon closer inspection, I actually Have a M3 Perfect SD, NOT an M3 perfect MiniSD (the card is fatter and the card slot isn't on the side of the card.) So maybe it's worth more and maybe its worth less. Until I can confirm it would be worth the hassle to sell it and send it out somewhere, it's stayin with me

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Last time I checked, 32 MB was the BIGGEST a rom size could be without having issues loading. no commercial rom is bigger. EDIT: OH wait that's exactly what you said.

And the Mini SD and SD versions have no software difference, just the memory card is different. I guess for convenience sake the SD is better, but the Mini SD one is more sleek.

I wish the M3 team didn't suck now. they used to make some great carts.